Growth hormone and prolactin responses to corticotrophin-releasing- hormone in patients with Cushing's disease: A paracrine action of the adenomatous corticotrophic cells?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 433-439

  Loli, P ^a   Boccardi, E ^a   Branca, V ^a   Bramerio, M ^a   Barberis, M ^b   Losa, M ^c   Terreni, M T ^c   Lodrini, S ^d   Pollo, B ^d   Vignati, F ^a  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^b Div of Anat Pathology and Cytology   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRONCHUS CARCINOID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PETROSAL SINUS SAMPLING; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 15444346260     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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